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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sl1eet 1 A. G. BROWN, Deed.

R. W. BROWN, Administrator. WASHING MACHINE.

No. 350,035. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 2. A. G. BROWN Deod.

R. W. BROWN, Administrator. WASHING MACHINE.

No. 350,035. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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R. WV. BROWN ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID ABNER G. BROWN, DECEASED.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,035, dated September 28, 1886.

(No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

'Be it known that LABNER G. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lima, in the county of Allen and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention is an improved washing-machine, and embraces the following peculiar features: Upon the top of a standing frame having flaring ends is secured a detachable wash-tray, within which is suitably adjusted a wash-board or rubber, consisting of a de tachable frame holding within it a series of corrugated and reciprocated slats, each alternate or other one of which is simultaneously reciprocated lengthwise in opposite or reverse directions upon suitable bars and rails by treadlegearing mounted within said frame below, and their purposes are hereinafter more fully described, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which the same letters designate identical parts of my invention in the different figures, respectively.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the same, the lines of section being shown by the letters :0 w and z z in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottomview of the wash-board frame, showing the crossbars which carry their respective indented sliding slats; and Fig. 4 is a top view of same.

The letter A represents the standing frame, and B the washing-tray,within which is placed the wash-board O. The said frame consists of a front, two ends flaring outward to the open rear, and an open top and bottom. The top edges of the said flaring ends slant downward from rear to front, so as to give the washingtray bottom a suitable incline for the purpose of properly draining the dirty suds from the clothes and tray. WVithin the frame and upon suitable projecting brackets, a, are hung the shafts of the flywheel b and the band or cog wheel 0, which are moved by the crankgeared treadles (1, thereby imparting motion to the indented slats e of the wash-board G by means of the hook-pitmanficonnecting the shaft of the fly-wheel b with the double rocker g. The said wash-board consists of an open box-frame secured within and near the middle of the wash-tray B, as shown. Said tray is also a shallow oblong box, secured upon the top of the inclined edges of the frame A by means of cleats and hooks, as shown, the ends of the outer pair of said cleats extending beyond the frame in the form of handles to lift and remove the machine from place to place.

Within the wash-board frame 0 is suitably pivoted the half-wheel rockerg, provided with the crank-pin h for the hook-pitman f, and with the two pins which,by.means of the connecting-rods 1", one leading from one of said pins to one of the cross-bars m, and the other leading from the other pin to one of the crossbars a, give reciprocal motion to the said alternate pairs of oppositely-moving slats e and i, as shown, the cross-bars m securely holding the alternate slats e in their concave seats, while allowing the slats i to slide over them, while the bars n in the same way hold the slats t and allow the slats e to slide past, so that while the rocker is moved by the hookpitman f the alternate pairs of slatseareslidinginthe same direction over the rails 0, and the slats i are simultaneously sliding in the opposite direction. The said sliding slats may be of any suitable number and dimensions. Thus when the treadles are moved a reciprocal motion is imparted through the gearing to the indented wash-board slats, which directly reverses the usual process of washing the clothes, and instead of the clothes being rubbed by hand or machinery upon the wash-board in some stationary position they are rubbed underneath by the reciprocally and reversely moving slats of the wash-board, while the clothes are held This mode stationary upon the moving slats. of washing saves much tiresome labor and the clothing fabric,whileit cleanses the clothes with ease and celerity. Therefore,

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by 'Letters Patent, is

1. In the washing-machineherein described, the standing frame A, having the brackets a, fly-wheel b, band-wheel c, and treadles d, in combination with the detachable wash-tray B and its inclosed wash-board 0, provided 0, and operating mechanism, substantially as with the hook-pitman f, rocker g, rods 1", and described, substantially as and for the purthe series of simultaneously and oppositely re poses herein specified. oiproeated slats e and z, substantially as and In testimony whereof I affix my signature in for the purposes herein specified. presence of two witnesses.

2. In the wash-board O, inelosed within the wash-tray B of the machine herein described, ABNER BROWN the combination of the roekerg, eonnecting- Witnesses: rods 1', the oppositely-reciprocared alternate T. R. KENNEDY, 1o slats e and z, the riding barsm and n, the rails I R. W. BROWN. 

